Topic: The worst idea Castlevania's ever actually had?

[Lumi Kløvstad]

For my money, I suggest "any attempt to make a Castlevania movie".

Thank GOD the latter efforts didn't pan out. It would not translate well.

[Chernabogue]

I think a CV movie could be good, if people concentrate on the major elements of the games. I'm sure a CV3 movie could be well done.

[Lumi Kløvstad]

And they tried it. And then it died a long, quiet, atrophied death.

[Chernabogue]

And they tried it. And then it died a long, quiet, atrophied death.

This thing? Well, it looked quite good, but development was very chaotic. It's a shame because the script was good.

[Lumi Kløvstad]

Now I got curious, so I sent Project 51 Productions an email asking about the project, though whether the emails I sent the message to are even active, I've no idea.

I'll keep you posted.

[JR]

Judgment, easily.

I actually thought it was kind of fun (especially for someone like me who doesn't have the patience to learn how to properly play fighting games), but you have to admit it was a terrible, terrible idea.

[Ahasverus]

Making a Castlevania game without platfforming (Curse of Darkness)... seriously??!!

[Pemburu Vampir]

Castlevania Legends.

[VladCT]

Hiring Obata to redesign the characters in Judgment. The game itself wasn't that much of a bad idea, it's just that the execution leaves much to be desired.

[JR]

I was kind of thinking around the same lines. Not so much the concept of a Castlevania fighting game on its own, but the combination of ideas all around (which makes it more than one "idea," but I digress). The character design, the decision to make it series canon, the unskippable super move cutscenes, little Maria's unsettling fascination with boobies, etc., etc.

[A-Yty]

Judgment, easily.

I actually thought it was kind of fun (especially for someone like me who doesn't have the patience to learn how to properly play fighting games), but you have to admit it was a terrible, terrible idea.

I think the idea wasn't completely terrible, but the implementation was crap.

[Sumac]

There will be quite a lot:

Introducing Leveling into the gameplay and forgeting to balance it. Amazingly it goes for pretty much all "metroidvanias" except for COTM and OOE, that make me think that designers didn't care about that aspect of the games.

Also, introducing subsystems that weren't very useful and came more as a gimmick, rather than something genuinely thought out.

Also, anime art for DOS and POR, Obata's art for Judgement. And Kojima's Simon redesign.

And I think butchered POR story, also qualifies.

[X]

I have about three games in mind:

1st Worst# LoI (Strictly speaking of Dracula's origin story. What a f**king mess it made.)

2d worst# CoD (IGA should not have bothered trying. A poor, mediocre attempt to compliment an already complete and fantastic game.)

3d worst# DoS (Nothing new or really relevant. And no new character development either. Takes way too long to farm for souls too.)

[Flame]

In b4 LoS haters

DoS as a whole, but specifically the anime style.

[DragonSlayr81]

Worst idea ever had? Lord of the Rings-vania!